[m-users.] Too Slow

[Matthias Güdemann]

Am 1. Mai 2015 14:23:49 MEZ, schrieb Mark Brown <mark at mercurylang.org>:
>On Fri, May 1, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Peter Wang <novalazy at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, 01 May 2015 07:02:48 +0100, Matthias Guedemann
><matthias.guedemann at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> > You should allocate the mp_ints like this:
>>>
>>> >     Mp_Int = MR_GC_NEW_ATTRIB(mp_int, MR_ALLOC_ID);
>>>
>>> > For the string in mp_to_string you should use
>>>
>>> >     MR_allocate_aligned_string_msg(S, length, MR_ALLOC_ID);
>>>
>>> > or other macros in mercury_string.h
>>>
>>> ok, thank you for the hints. Could you point me to the relevant
>section
>>> in the user guide, or is the documentation only in the source files?
>>
>> Unfortunately the latter (mercury_memory.h and mercury_string.h).
>> I think no memory management interface has been documented because
>> the existing interface is specific to conservative GCs, if not Boehm
>> GC.  Nonetheless, practical code using the foreign language interface
>> invariably needs to allocate so I think we should document some of
>the
>> macros and functions, with caveats.
>
>That's done for lists and floats (section 14.3.1), and ought to be
>done for strings, too. Allocating foreign types on Mercury's heap
>needs one big caveat, though, namely that no finaliser will be called.
>If the foreign type needs to be explicitly freed, allocating it on
>Mercury's heap won't work.
>
>Unfortunately, libtommath falls into this category - it expects
>mp_ints to be cleared when they're done with. So the code still leaks
>even with the above changes.
>
>Cheers,
>Mark.
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Hi Mark,

thanks for the info. I'll add predicates to clear mp_int values which call the finalizers.

Is this because mp_int is just a struct containing pointers to malloc'ed memory? So then the GC frees the memory malloc'ed for mp_int itself, and the internal stays stay allocated?

Matthias
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